Jackie is leading the community relationship in vpnMentor. He is responsible for managing, editing, and developing high quality interviews with security professionals. His background includes software and website development, as well as online marketing (i.e. SEO. PPC, CPA, etc.).

“The entire world is my target market” – that is essentially what Dr. Burkhard Wiegel, CEO of Zertificon is saying about his email encryption products. You can understand why he might say that – every company in the world, regardless of size or industry, uses email to communicate both internally and externally. This means that...

BeyondTrust is convinced that the greatest cause of enterprise data breaches is the fact that users abuse the privileged level of access permission given to them, i.e. admin or root access. Sometimes this abuse is malicious and sometimes it is accidental – but it is always a bad thing. The BeyondTrust platform and tools address...

Leon Schumacher, the Co-Founder and CEO of pretty Easy privacy, is extremely focused on one – and only one – goal. He wants to make email privacy simple to deploy for companies and individuals. He is convinced that by doing so, the current adoption of email encryption will rise significantly from its current (“ridiculously low”)...

Despite all of the technologies and efforts invested in protecting an organization’s network, the reality is that there will ultimately be some malware or hacker that breaches the security of the network. When (not if) that occurs, how vulnerable are your applications and the data they process? In my interview with Rusty Carter, Vice President...

The security threats faced by small and mid-sized organizations are no different from those faced by much larger organizations. However, smaller organizations have proportionately smaller security budgets for technology and expert security staff making it very challenging. That is why turning to a proven managed security services provider (MSSP) becomes an attractive option. In my...

When a user visits your company’s website to make a purchase or to apply for an account, how do you know that they are in fact who they claim to be? Are they using a stolen identity or spoofing an existing one? Just about every business today needs to ask these questions, in order to...

My interview with Pravin Kothari, the founder and CEO of CipherCloud, covers a wide range of topics related to security software. Of course, Pravin describes the problem space and benefits of the CipherCloud Information Protection platform – a Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), which manages and protects the information and access of an organization’s employees...

As soon as I started speaking with Ori Eisen, the founder and CEO of Trusona, I felt a surge of energy in the room. I quickly discovered the reasons for that energy: (1) Ori is a naturally enthusiastic guy, (2) Ori is extremely passionate about eliminating the use of passwords, and (3) we were speaking...

Do we really need yet another enterprise threat detection system? If you are in the healthcare field, the answer is a resounding yes! In this interview, Protenus co-founder and President Robert Lord outlines very clearly how the security and privacy needs of electronic health records are very different from traditional enterprise security issues. Moreover, the...

Just about every enterprise and organization today has in place a large assortment of security devices, software, and procedures to respond to security threats. What they are often lacking, however, is enough trained security personnel to execute the necessary actions. What they are really lacking is time – and when it comes to responding to...